Assessment Quote by Jonathan Schell

Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war…

— H. R. McMaster

Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a…

— Michael W. Michalak

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's…

— Donald Sutherland

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism…

— Jacob Weisberg

Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or an "unwise…

— Noam Chomsky

“From the perspective of nearly half a century, the Battle of Hue and the entire Vietnam War seem a tragic and meaningless waste. So…

— Mark Bowden

“In response to a a comprehensive VA survey taken in 1980, 91% of respondents who had seen combat in Vietnam reported that they were…

— Mackubin Thomas Owens

“The United States had complete control of the air over all of Vietnam, and could presumably deliver a decisive blow at will. The failure…

— Mark Bowden

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight…

— Robert McNamara

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of…

— Michael W. Michalak

“This is not to say, as some have, that American decisions between 1954 and 1956 (and later in the Eisenhower years) made the American-Vietnamese…

— James T. Patterson